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2026年1月26日

  2 Pandas Arrive in China from Japan


Twin giant pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, arrived in Sichuan Province in southwestern China on Wednesday after leaving Tokyo's Ueno Zoo the previous day.
   Upon arrival, they were sent to the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center's Bifengxia base in Ya'an in the province. They are expected to go on public display after quarantine.
   The two pandas left Ueno Zoo, where they were born in 2021, by truck Tuesday afternoon and were flown from Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, later that night.
   Many fans gathered outside the zoo and at the airport, while a flight believed to be carrying the animals briefly became the most tracked aircraft on Flightradar24, a global flight tracker.
   The transfer of the two pandas was based on an agreement with the Chinese side, bringing the number of pandas in Japan to zero for the first time in about half a century.


The last remaining giant pandas in Japan, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, departed for China on Tuesday afternoon in a move that will leave Japan with no giant pandas for the first time in about half a century.
   The four-year-old male-female twin pandas left the zoo aboard a truck. They will be transported by aircraft from Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, to China's Sichuan Province.
   There are strong calls in Japan for getting replacements, but it is uncertain whether China will agree to loan new pandas amid deteriorating relations between the two neighboring countries following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks about a potential Taiwan contingency.
   There may be a long absence of pandas in Japan, which have served as a symbol of the two countries' friendship, pundits say.
   Giant pandas first came to Japan in 1972. Kang Kang and Lan Lan, a male-female pair, were gifted to Ueno Zoo by China to commemorate the year's normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries.